jaw-
Those kids will all get a run out soon enough if they can make the grade at senior level, the future for English football looks a lot brighter than it has in many years but people need to calm the fuck down...
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Yeah know what you mean, hopefully Southgate has his eye on whose the next most likely to succeed, from those age groups. But the meaningful playing time is out of his hands. If they don't get first team football to kick on and improve at the club they are at, then loans/transfer to smaller/more willing to give them playing time club, is probably in order.
I'd only look at those squads if there was/is a spurs young 'un involved, like Onomah and walker peters, so my knowledge of the others and their possible potential is seriously limited...
I'm also assuming our progression to the semi-finals means Southgate now has time, space and authority to further mould the England set up to improve not just the first team, but also the youth team set ups as well...
I'm done now, off to see who Spurs might be buying.
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cornelius_blackfoot
Agreed there’s plenty of talent in the pipeline, and it’s also encouraging that some of that talent is looking for playing time rather than sitting in development squads. We currently have a surfeit of defenders and tricky attacking wings, only shortage we have is of strikers and progressive centre midfielders. @villa-ru could Grealish be the answer? @Manc_Ronnie is foden the answer? Would they be able to hold the centre and link play more effectively than what we have at the moment? Or am I putting round peg into square hole?
Disappointed in the manner of the exit in a game we could have won, but strangely relaxed about the future. Players are young, most are starters for their teams, and they can only get better (hopefully) but you still look at France and Belgium and to a certain extent Germany and think front to back in their 23 they have more talent than us, which tempers my optimism somewhat.